Wall construction.



G. W. BOSTWICK.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

GEORGE W. BOSTWICK, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed April 9, 1915.

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Bos'rwion, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento andState of California, have inventednew and useful Improvements in WallConstruction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in brick and stone wallconstruction and the method of erecting the same.

In carrying out the present invention, it is my purpose to form brick,stone and analogous building elements in such manner that walls may beerected by any one skilled or not skilled in the art of brick layingthereby reducing the cost of the labor.

It is also my purpose to form the brick and stone in such manner thatafter the wall is erected the mortar and other filling material will beinvisible from the front and back of the wall, while the front or faceof the wall will have the appearance of the usual brick or stone wall.

A further object of my invention is to provide a method of erectingwalls whereby the brick or stone may be readily assembled in wallformation and the mortar or other filling material poured into the spacebetween the face and back of the wall so that such 'filling materialwill enter the crevices between the bricks or stone and act to hold thelatter rigidly and securely in wall formation.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forthin and falling within the scope of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of awall constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is avertical transverse sectional View therethrough. Fig. 3 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 2 of the wall as having a stone face and a back ofbrick. Fig. 4 is a face view of a wall constructed of common brick. Fig.5 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the wall shown in Fig.4. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5 showing the wall as reinforced.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings I have shown a wall formed of bricks,joint strips and filler blocks constructed in accordance with thepresent invention, such wall having the front side formed of face brickand the rear side formed of brick. In erecting the Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Serial No. 20,260.

wall a foundation or base of cement or other material is formed. Theface brick are now arranged upon the base and disposed in rows one uponthe other and the bricks in each row are arranged end to end, and edgeto edge with the bricks in adjacent rows, and inter posed between thebacks 2 of the bricks in adjacent rows are the backs 11 of thehorizontal joint strips while the faces 12 of such strips are disposedbetween the confronting edges of the rows of bricks and set inwardly ofthe outer surfaces of the faces 1 of tl e bricks, as clearly illustratedin Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The backs 2 and 11 of the face bricksand the horizontal joint strips are held properly spaced apart by meansof spacing blocks 16 that are interposed between the confrontingsurfaces of such backs. Disposed between the confronting ends of thebricks in each row are the vertical joint strips, the backs 17 of thevertical joint strips being interposed between the ends of the backs ofthe face bricks, while the face strips 18 of the vertical joint stripsare disposed between the confronting ends of the faces 2 of the facebricks, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The back of the wallshown in Figs. 1 and 2 is formed by common brick and these bricks arearranged in rows and the bricks in each row are placed in end to endcontact with one another and in edge to edge contact with the bricks ofadjoining rows and the rows of common brick alternate with the rows offace brick, as shown in Fig. 2, the inner ends of the backs of thecommon bricks facing the adjacent ends of the horizontal joint strips.Interposed between the backs of the rows of bricks are the filler blocksand the tops and bottoms of the filler blocks 16 are adjacent to thetops and bottoms of the rear portions of the backs 2 of the face bricks,as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The filler blocks and thebacks of the common bricks are held properly spaced apart by means ofspacing blocks 16' corresponding to the filler blocks 16. During thecourse of construction of the wall, a cementitious substance is pouredinto the crevices between the bricks, joint strips and filler blocksafter the erection of predetermined numbers of rows of bricks and whenthe wall has reached the required height and the cementitious substancein the crevices hardened, the bricks, joint strips and filler blocks arebound together, while a casual observation of the front of the wallgives the impression of an ordinary brick wall, the faces of the facebricks simulating other styles of face bricks, while the face strips 12and 18 of the horizontal joint strips and vertical joint stripsrespectively simulate mortar.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings, I have shown the face of the wall as composedof stone in contradistinction to the brick face illustrated in Figs. 1and 2 of the drawings and the backs of the common bricks and the fillerblocks are spaced apart from the backs of the stones and joint strips.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have shown the front of the wall as formed of commonbrick as contradistinguished from face brick and when both faces of thewall are formed of common brick the horizontal joint strips and thevertical joint strips are eliminated and the method of constructioncarried out the same as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The wall shown in Fig. 6 is substantially the same in construction asthat illustrated in Figs. I and 5, but in the construction shown in Fig.6 the inner ends of the bricks and filler blocks forming the front andback respectively of the wall are spaced apart a greater distance thanthe similar bricks and filler blocks in Figs. 4 and 5 and this space isfilled by a cementitious substance and this cementitious substance isreinforced by metal wall ties as shown so as to reinforce and strengthenthe wall.

It will be understood, of course, that in the construction of a wallrows of header bricks are interposed between the rows of stretcherbricks at predetermined points so as to strengthen the structure.

lVhile the brick or stone joint strips and filler blocks in the wall asherein described are spaced apart by the spacing blocks 16, I do notwish to be confined to the use of such spacing blocks only, as in manycases it may be preferable to place ordinary mortar on the variousshelves and filler blocks, such mortar acting as a spacing agent.

While I have herein shown. and described certain preferred forms of myinvention by way of illustration, I wish it to be understood that I donot limit or confine myself to the precise details of constructionherein described and delineated, as modification and variation may bemade within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

lVherever, in the specification, I have referred to common brick, I meanbrick formed of ordinary clay, etc., in contradistinction to face brickor other fancy brick.

I claim:

1. In wall construction, rows of bricks superimposed one upon another,each brick having a wide face and a. relatively narrow back, the bricksin each row being placed end to end with one another and edge to edgewith the bricks of adjoining rows, oint strips having wide backs andrelatively narrow face strips, the backs of said joint strips beinginterposed between the backs of the bricks and the face strips beingdisposed between and in contact with the edge faces of the bricks, and acementitious substance filling the space between the bricks.

2. In wall construction, rows of bricks superimposed one upon another,each brick having a wide face and a relatively narrow back, the bricksin each row being placed end to end with one another and edge to edgewith the bricks of adjoining rows, filler blocks interposed between thebacks of the bricks, a cementitious substance filling the space betweenthe bricks, and spacing blocks interposed between the confrontingsurfaces of the filler blocks and the backs of the bricks.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. BOSTWIOK.

Vitnesses CHESTER H. CARMICHAEL, MICHAEL J. CLAUGI-IERTY.

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